Tiger Global Management, the private equity firm that holds significant stakes in ecommerce companies Flipkart and Myntra, has raised $1.5 billion in its eighth fund, according to a filing with the SEC. A total of 415 investors (limited partners) have participated in the fund, dubbed Tiger Global Private Investment Partners VIII. The new fund is the same size as the New York headquartered firm’s seventh fund, which was raised in 2012. The firm’s latest deal to hit the headlines was the $80 million Series C round in online Q&A service Quora. It led the round with participation from Benchmark, Matrix Partners, North Bridge, and Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel. High-growth technology startups, particularly in the Internet domain, has been a big area of focus for the firm in the past several years. Some of the other well known startups in its global portfolio include…
